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Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1693. 12mo. (12),+ 216; 144, 125-323 pp. First title printed in red and black. Minor spot on pp (3-4). Contemporary full calf, richly gilt spine with rasied bands, boards with the gilt arms of Nicholas Joseph Foucault in center, red marbled boards. Joints worn and upper rear hinge partly broke. Engr. book plate of Bookplate of Nicholas Joseph Foucault, 1st Marquis de Magny. First French edition of William Temple?s first ?Miscellanea? (London 1680), a collection of essays. There exist two versions, one with the title misspelled ?oevures?, that has 216 resp. 323 pages and is without Errata, and one with the title correctly spelled ?oeuvres?, with 273 resp. 435 pp, and with Errata. A second French edition was published in 1694 and a third in 1699. It contains a.o. chapters of: ?Considerations generales sur létat & les interêts de l?Empire, de la Suede, du Danemarc, de l?Espagne, de la Hollande, de la France & de la Flandres par rapport à l?Angleterre en l?année 1671?, ?La recherche des moyens d?avancer le commerce en Irlande?, Du scavoir des anciens & des modernes?, ? de la poësie? etc. Sir William Temple (1628-99) was an English statesman, diplomat (envoy to Brussels in 1665-68 and ambassador at The Hague in 1668-70 and in 1674-79) and essayist, who turned to miscellaneous writing during leisure periods in his career and retirement at Moor Park, Surrey, where he employed Jonathan Swift as a secretary. This copy come from the library of the statesman and archaologist Nicholas Joseph Foucault (1643-1721), 1st marquis de Magny, whose library was "parmi les plus précieuse concernant l'histoire de France" (Guigard II p. 221). His name is today probably most famous for the finding of the Bayeau tapestry, a hand drawing of which was found in his library and identified by de Montfaucon.
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